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Recent Examples of clergyman
Separately on Tuesday, Iran hanged Farhad Salimi, a Kurdish cleric who had spent 14 years behind bars over the killing of another clergyman, human rights groups reported.
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San Diego Union-Tribune, 23 Jan. 2024
The first hint of photosynthesis came from experiments by English clergyman and scientist Joseph Priestly.
—Cody Cottier, Discover Magazine, 4 Nov. 2024
Among the clergymen cited in the lawsuits that were settled Wednesday, Father Michael Baker is one of the priests with the most victims.
—Richard Winton, Los Angeles Times, 16 Oct. 2024
After the overthrow of the monarchy, Iranians voted in huge majorities for an explicitly Islamic republic and for a constitution that placed a clergyman, Khomeini, at its apex.
—Haleh Esfandiari, Foreign Affairs, 12 Dec. 2017
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San Diego Union-Tribune, 23 Jan. 2024
The first hint of photosynthesis came from experiments by English clergyman and scientist Joseph Priestly.
—Cody Cottier, Discover Magazine, 4 Nov. 2024
Among the clergymen cited in the lawsuits that were settled Wednesday, Father Michael Baker is one of the priests with the most victims.
—Richard Winton, Los Angeles Times, 16 Oct. 2024
After the overthrow of the monarchy, Iranians voted in huge majorities for an explicitly Islamic republic and for a constitution that placed a clergyman, Khomeini, at its apex.
—Haleh Esfandiari, Foreign Affairs, 12 Dec. 2017
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for clergyman
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His venue, the Tabernacle, hosted church services, preachers, lecturers and community events.Audrey Gibbs, The Tennessean, 6 Oct. 2024
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The abolitionist, women’s rights advocate and preacher was born into slavery in New York, sold four times, then escaped in 1826.The Arizona Republic, The Arizona Republic, 27 Nov. 2024
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Pentecostalism was about two decades old at the time, and its early practices of interracial worship, speaking in tongues, and divine healing were subjects of lively conversation among the relatively staid and respectable churchmen of mainline Protestantism.Andrew Cockburn, Harper's Magazine, 19 Aug. 2024
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If the dominant Spaniards of The Betrothed are unjust, self-interested, and pompous, few of the Italians — including churchmen — are any better.David Harsanyi, National Review, 25 Jan. 2024
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Every month has two, three or four official Jubilee events that Francis is expected to attend which are designated for particular categories of people: the armed forces, artists, priests, poor people, volunteers and teachers.Nicole Winfield, Los Angeles Times, 23 Dec. 2024
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By now Francis' annual Christmas address to the priests, bishops and cardinals who work in the Vatican Curia has become a lesson in humility — and humiliation — as Francis offers a public dressing down of some of the sins in the workplace at the headquarters of the Catholic Church.CBS News, CBS News, 21 Dec. 2024
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The Telugu deacon, Rajani Karise, 45, of Brookfield, appreciates that spirit of communal participation.Sophie Carson, Journal Sentinel, 24 Dec. 2024
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Meanwhile, twin brothers and deacons, Marcellus and Marcellianus, had been captured and were imprisoned.Christine Rousselle, Fox News, 1 Dec. 2024
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Parents are heated after a reverend ruined the magic of Christmas for a group of children.Bailey Richards, People.com, 15 Dec. 2024
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And as luck will have it, the British actress will soon be seen as a different kind of villainous nun, playing a reverend mother of the Bene Gesserit in the HBO spinoff Dune: Prophecy.Nate Jones, Vulture, 9 Nov. 2024
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Founded by South Korean cleric David Jang in 2000, the university remains the subject of a labor trafficking and visa fraud probe by Homeland Security Investigations and could face charges, according to agency emails.Newsweek, Newsweek, 19 Dec. 2024
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With the cleric’s support, messages from the mosque emphasized the importance of the Measles-Rubella (MR) vaccine and urged parents to ensure their children were fully vaccinated.UNICEF USA, Forbes, 26 Nov. 2024
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The end result was a new brand of ecclesiastics and lay Catholics who felt comfortable detaching themselves from Franco’s regime, or even fighting it head-on in a variety of forums, including student movements, intellectual circles, unions, political parties, and the media.Victor Pérez-Díaz, Foreign Affairs, 6 Dec. 2013
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Of all the precious goods accumulated by the rulers and ecclesiastics of late medieval Ethiopia, the most charged of all were books.Peter Brown, The New York Review of Books, 24 Sep. 2020
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David Niven is a young bishop who's so tripped up by ambition and the desire to build a cathedral that he's forgotten what's truly important...even his own family.James Mercadante, EW.com, 14 Dec. 2024
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When Juan Diego returned to the bishop and opened the tilma to show them the roses, an image of the Virgin of Guadalupe appeared printed on the fabric.Paula Soria, The Arizona Republic, 12 Dec. 2024
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“Clergyman.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/clergyman. Accessed 4 Jan. 2025.
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